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The Allied Media Conference advances visions for a just and
creative world. It is a laboratory for media-based solutions to the
matrix of life-threatening problems. Since being founded in
1999, AMC has evolved its definition of media, and the role it can play
in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to
communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds
off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and
relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of
media-makers, technologists and social justice organizers. AMC draws strength from converging movements to face the challenges and
opportunities of our current moment to create, connect
and transform.

The Allied Media Conference is the central project of the Allied Media Projects
(AMP) network, which emerges out of ten years of organic
relationship-building. Since the first conference (then the Midwest
Zine Conference) in 1999, people have been compelled by the concept of
do-it-yourself media. Later, as the Underground Publishing Conference,
the emphasis was on building a movement of alternative media makers.
With the shift towards Allied Media, the AMC has attracted more and
more people who are interested in using participatory media as a
strategy for social justice organizing.